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The plasmon drag effect was discovered about a decade ago in 2005. Since then, it has attracted considerable attention from the nanotechnology and photonics community due to fundamental physics of this effect as manifestation of electron plasmon coupling and myriad of possible applications in nanoelectronics, photonics and sensing. In this chapter, we review the recent advances in the plasmon drag effect studies.
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Durach, M., Noginova, N. (2017). Plasmon Drag Effect. Theory and Experiment. In: Hunyadi Murph, S., Larsen, G., Coopersmith, K. (eds) Anisotropic and Shape-Selective Nanomaterials. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59662-4_8
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